Letter: Coulter calls it wrong

Horace HonePalm Coast

Published Saturday, January 14, 2006

Editor: According to ignoramus Ann Coulter (January 9) Democrats cannot be trusted with national security. She has forgotten, or never knew, that Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt had immense difficulty convincing right-wingers such as Charles Lindberg, Douglas Stuart, Robert Wood and many Republicans that the Axis Powers were a potential threat to us. In Britain all the Munich appeasers - Chamberlain, Halifax, Hoare, et al were Conservatives.

More recently, President Clinton had plans to attack al-Qaida but the incoming Bushites ignored the warnings of the previous administration and became fixated on Iraq while allowing Osama Bin Laden to abscond.

Ms. Coulter calls them sane, informed adults. Their leader is more at home reading stories about pet goats.